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This is a guest post from Megan Gileza, the Creative Director at Whatify. She is passionate about user experiences with positive impacts and about building brands for small businesses that will help them succeed. Through her experience as a graphic designer, she began to dabble in photography and developed a personal DIY process for at-home photography. As an Etsy seller, you know that photos of …

This is a guest-post from Mélanie Vaast, who is a writer and project marketing manager at E-Commerce Nation. She has developed a keen interest in e-commerce and web marketing through her various experiences in international business developments. She also enjoys traveling and exploring cultures all over the world. What are the Etsy best sellers? Have you considered creating an Etsy store but you’re not sure …

Last week, Etsy underwent a major transformation. Their long-time CEO Chad Dickerson was replaced with Josh Silverman. In an attempt to understand and engage with sellers, the new CEO Josh Silverman took to an Etsy forum and answered questions from several Etsy sellers. A dive into this question answer session gave us a clue on the future of the beloved handmade platform. Here are the …

Are you an Etsy seller trying to promote your Etsy store? I know that you are one of the busiest entrepreneurs on earth. Creator, marketer, salesperson, publicist, customer relations officer- these are a few of the several roles that you play in order to successfully make your Etsy sales. The surprising fact is that most Etsy sellers don’t do it full time as well. This …

Etsy has announced a slew of changes for 2017 and some of them are very interesting. If you’re short on time, here’s the most important changes (and updates) coming to Etsy in the next few weeks: Etsy Studio: Like Wholesale, Etsy is launching a separate section / sub-marketplace for craft suppliers to flourish. This is a great news for Etsy sellers who sell craft supplies …

TL;DR — At the beginning of every year the major shipment carriers revise their pricing. Here are the major changes for 2017 USPS – 4.1% increase for domestic First Class, 3.9% for domestic Priority Mail 3.4% for domestic Priority Mail Express FedEx – 3.8% increase for domestic & international FedEx Express rates Canada Post Shipping Labels on Etsy – 3% increase in shipments to the …

This is a guest-post from Annabelle Short, who is a seamstress, social media fanatic and a blogger at Wunderlabel (US, UK). Google serves 3.5 billion searches a day, and for most people searching for a product, Google is the starting point. The traffic from search engines is known as organic traffic. Whether people find you through Etsy’s internal search engine or through Google search, both …

We know what’s on your mind as an Etsy seller – “how to sell more of my items?” Every small business owner that has a handmade venture on Etsy is searching for ways to sell more, sell better and sell smarter.

On 15th March, Etsy rolled out a new design for your shop. The “brand new design” is set to go live only after 5th April but you are given two weeks to play with the brand new design and customize your shop before it goes live.

If you’ve been using IFTTT recipes to auto-post your new Etsy listings to social media, there’s some bad news. IFTTT is going to stop supporting Etsy-related recipes from March 23 (it’s also stopping several other platforms and Etsy just turned out to be one of them).